Composers Concordance concert Thur. May 27!

The John Eaton piece certainly qualifies a post to this list... :)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Composers Concordance will present the final concert of its 20th
Anniversary Season Thursday, May 27th, 2004 at 8PM in the NYU
Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 W. Fourth Street (between Washington
Square East and Greene Street).

We will be featuring tenor Paul Sperry in the jazz-hued, French-
influenced, Five Songs by the early 20th-century American composer
Theodore Chanler, as well as Leonard Lehrman's Five Duets for soprano
Helene Williams, tenor and piano which explore the range of Lehrman's
expressive language. "I Went Looking For My Soul," #3 of the 5 duets,
based on a poem by Charles Bernstein, will receive its world
premiere.

Composer John Eaton will be in the audience for his Fantasy Romance
for cello and piano as rendered by Jeffrey Shaw, cello and Paul
Hoffmann, piano. Eaton, recipient of the 1990 MacArthur "genius"
award is a master and pioneer of the use of microtones, and here,
like a living genie, he integrates them into a mysterious and
arresting musical fabric.

Clarinetist Esther Lamneck will showcase a new piece by Patrick
Hardish for solo clarinet, Sonorities VII, one in his continuing
series of reflections on the sound possibilities and distinctive
timbres of individual instruments.

Composers Concordance mentor and advisor, the distinguished American
composer Otto Luening, will be remembered through his famous
electronic piece Gargoyles, for violin and tape, performed by the
masterful new music enthusiast, violinist Lynn Bechtold, with audio
support by Luening disciple, composer Dan Cooper. A mainstay of
the "classical electronic" literature, Gargoyles evidences Luening's
concern with taking traditional forms and instruments into the "space
age…"

Continuing our new electronic directions in sound, percussionist-
composer Tom Beyer will premiere a piece RE which explores his
mastery of the electronic idiom while showing his performing prowess
as percussionist.

And, the percussion/electronic theme will continue, as vibraphonist
extraordinaire, Peter Jarvis, propels his mallets into a new work by
Art Krieger, Rainsticks for vibraphone and recording. Krieger is the
man known for bringing the Jamaican "pan" into the contemporary music
literature.

The concert will conclude with William Anderson's Sometimes for solo
vibraphone, a challenging work written expressly for Jarvis with many
varied meters and moods.

Tickets are $15, $10 students and seniors, TDF accepted. For further
information visit our website www.composersconcordance.org (or 212-
564-4899). See you there!